I request some assitance, I am currently adding transparancy (Alpha Channel) to a .GIF, Some parts of the picture other than the background is white, So I Pumped the "Color Difference" thing on the bottom to 255 (I put a slightly Unseeable shade of gray in the said locations) and selected the graphic, The whole image is then selected,(Therefore when adding the channel the whole image is deleted) What did I do wrong?

I'm not sure if I can ask what I'm going to ask, but what the heck, I'll give it a go.

A week and a day ago, I downloaded and installed GIMP. On my first day of looking around, I saw two little boxes that came up. One was the Toolbar window, and the other I can't remember. All I know is that I "X"ed out the second one and can't get it back.

Well...you'd have to be a bit more specific,but if you want to make a Sig,that'll take quite a bit of time and practice,actually,it took me about 4 months to actually make my first Sig,here it is,I'm keeping it as an item.

That's my first ever Sig.

Now look how far I've gotten:Now,I'm going to show you how to make a Sig.

First open a 400 X 115 canvas,like so:Now look for a render of what you want.Example:Save your render on your desktop.

Fill your canvas with black.Now click on file>open.and look for the render.When you find it,go to the bottom right on that window,and click on open.Your render should now be on the screen.Now to go file>copy.Now close the window that the render was on and go back to your black filled canvas.Now click on your paint Brush icon,look below and you should see something like this:

Mode:

Opacity:

Brush:

Scale:

Click on Brush and if you can see your render as your current Brush,well done!Now set the scale to 0.65.

Add a text or something and save it as a GIF file,your done!!

This should be your outcome but only with a different render:

Post your outcome when you can.

[size=1][color=#666666]This message was edited by BazBro on May 23 2009.

i'm actually new to this program but i've been practicing! as you can see there on my sig, it's my 1st gimp edit where i used fuzzy borders and xach-effect on text. 2nd was my site banner w/ image mapping made easy by gimp!

right now i just wanna ask if there's anything wrong w/ the image below:

the bg should be transparent (in firefox & opera), but in internet exploerr it comes w/ a solid white bg. is it just a difference in browers, or does it need a little more editing?

another is using script-fu to render round corners, but when i flatten images, the bg appears white (or whatever color was set in the foreground). this is why i made 2 versions bec. i'm using 2 bgs (black & white):

is there a way to remove those black/white corners so the image stays rounded and the bg transparent? i've read tutorials but they don't tell anything about it (i couldn't have just missed them)

There is no need to use a script for rounded edges, just use the rectangular select tool to select the image, making sure that the rounded edges are turned on. Then invert the selection with ctrl + I and delete it.

Another way is to select the entire image (many ways to do this) and then shrink the selection by however much you want the curve to be by. Then grow the selection by the same amount and the edges will be rounded.

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